The browser war heated to a burning orange glow Tuesday with Mozilla’s release of Firefox 4. Just as Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11 and Chrome 10 before it, Firefox 4 has cut away the fat, and morphed ...

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In the epic battle among browsers, the latest flanking maneuver comes from the Mozilla Foundation, in the form of Firefox 4 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. As with recent releases of Safari, Google ...

The second beta release of the next version of Firefox is now available. Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 from Mozilla and test it out. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux builds are available in multiple languages.

A lot has changed in the browser universe since Firefox 3.0 launched in June 2008. Google Chrome burst onto the scene, and has undergone frequent updates since then. Microsoft released IE 8 and IE 9.

The two most-used browsers just got updates, with Mozilla's ahead of Microsoft's in real-world use. But Chrome and Safari are the ones that gained share. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

While it’s impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop.

Mozilla’s Firefox 4 browser trounced Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 in first day downloads when it launched last week, but now it’s further walloping Microsoft’s browser by snagging twice as much ...

Mozilla has released mockups that show how Firefox 4.0 conceivably might look, and two words spring to my mind: Google Chrome. Last week, Mozilla showed some mockups for the nearer-term Firefox 3.7 ...

One of the most divisive aspects of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 release this week was the company’s decision to support only Windows Vista and Windows 7 with the new browser. That means it doesn’t ...

Results in milliseconds. Shorter bars are better. Compared to version 3.6.15, Firefox 4 feels like a whole new browser. On a 2GHz Core 2 Duo aluminum MacBook with 2GB RAM, it benchmarked XHTML ...

This week’s release of the Firefox 5 browser came shockingly fast for Mozilla. Firefox 4 came out of beta barely 3 months ago–the previous numbered release, Firefox 3, was released way back in 2008. A ...